Heavy win with 3-1 FROM MACEDONIKO
For the second day in a row, PAS Ioannina was below par and spread disappointment among its fans, especially with the appearance and secondly with the result in Nea Efkarpia, where he suffered a 3-1 defeat against Makedonikos.
And we are not just talking about a possible loss in other cases due to a bad day of the team, but unfortunately we are dealing with the inability to get solutions from Rene Poms to get the team more diversity in the creation of levels. . Now PAS Ioannina’s game is predictable and monotonous with crosses, deep balls and static levels. Soria – although he often crosses with good positions – does not find a player in the area and not only that, but the slow return of the full-backs usually leaves gaps that the load -challenges taking full advantage of it. This is what the Macedonian did on Sunday, reaching a big score at the end of the game which is of course not reduced by Gino’s honor goal in the 92′.
The game went “wrong” early
Mr. Poms chose for the game to convert the team to 3-4-3, after the 3-5-2 with Niki Volou, placing Panos as a midfielder next to Gino and Mandzis on the right in attack , with Sepovic at top and Heinrich on the left. Of course, the philosophy did not change, since the whole game was played from the right side with Soria crossing many times, but without finding a teammate and sometimes when the crosses passed, there were no good finishes, because Mantzis was marked well, while Sepovic was missing.
The Macedonian, for his part, was waiting to hit PAS on the sidewalks and it didn’t take long for him to find the first chance and even score. In the 7th minute, Leonidopoulos escaped from the right side, where PAS had the biggest problem with Sobotchinski and Loupa, he crossed to Zafeirakis who made it 1-0 with a header.
This goal “froze” PAS, who continued with their plan, but with more opposition players behind the ball. Nevertheless, in the 22nd minute, Soria came out in front of Talikhmanidis, who saved with his feet in the 4-4!
Macedonia responded to PAS’s big level 4 minutes later in the same way with Heridis firing from the penalty spot and Athanasiou making a great intervention.
In stoppage time Athanassiou made a way out to catch outside the area on foot, he went after it with something like a volley, the ball went to Siharoulashvili who tried to “hang it”, but to luckily he managed to turn and block the ball in time.
PAS could not improve in the second half
In the replay, Mr. Poms changed some things, Nikolias came in for Lupa, Heinrich turned left half-back, Mantzis moved to the left side of the attack and Nikolias went to the right side, managing to some degree to change PAS’ style of play, trying to bring out direct partnerships.
In general, PAS took more steps on the field, but did not “shock” the opponent with consecutive big chances. He only had a few good moments with a header from Mandzis in the 48′, a good shot by Panos in the 54′ which Talikhmanidis saved in his left corner, a header to the back of Mandzis in the 67′ which was blocked by- again by the goalkeeper, as he blocked a header by Soboczynski in the 75th minute. To get to the 82′ where Bakadimas eliminated Tavares, with the referee immediately showing the white arrow. Tavares took over the execution and made it 2-0 effectively ending the game.
PAS had two more chances in doubt with Manzi and Sobotchinski, with Talikhmanidis blocking and in the 90′ the score took on even more dimensions with Tavares supporting Ramirez who made it 3-0 from close range.
PAS managed to reduce the score to 3-1 in stoppage time with Gino taking advantage of Mantzi’s assist with a header.
At the end of the game, some of the Christovasilis brothers were unhappy, who went up to the center and spoke to the fans in the presence of Dasios and Palaiologos.
The displeasure of the players was not avoided, however, with Mr. Palaiologos encouraging them not to add to the already heavy atmosphere, although at 3-0 some heard the famous slogan “The Ajax shirt is heavy – heavy …”.
With this loss, PAS is now 5 points behind AEL, who beat Heraklis 3-0 and will show – not only that it is the first favorite – but also the one without a doubt, because no team has comparable quality to her, or at least not. taking it off so far.
Macedonia (Malejas): Talichmanidis, Pantekidis, Pedro Loukas, Tsoukanis, Topalidis, Panagiotoudis, Leonidopoulos, Hasek (83′ Almyras), Zafeirakis (74′ Tavares), Heridis (65′ Giakoumakis), Sicharoulashvili (74′ Ramirez).
PAS Ioannina (Poms): Athanasiou, Soria, Bakadimas, Reeder, Sobonski, Loupas (46′ Nikolias), Gino, Panos, Heinrich (79′ Aziz), Sepovic, Mantzis.
